I agree, it is different, but XML and SOAP means no licensing, not platform
dependent and standardized. :)
I do appreciate the info and feedback offered.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Red Pineseed" <yue207@home.com>
To: "pgsql-interfaces" <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] OT: Heterogenous networks
> SOAP is based on XML-RPC while it corrected some of the
> XML-RPC limitations. Both SOAP and XML-RPC use HTTP
> protocols to exchanges XML packets through procedure calls,
> which is different form CORBA and RMI.
>
>
> Philip
>
>
>
> Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the off topic post, but this is just to finish up a comment
about
> > XML I made earlier.
> >
> > Biztalk is the MS implementation, but SOAP is the protocol that wraps
XML
> > around the data. Here is a quote:
> >
> > Abstract
> > SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a
> > decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that
> > consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for
describing
> > what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for
> > expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention
for
> > representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially
be
> > used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only
> > bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in
combination
> > with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
> >
> > It is not an MS technology.
> >
> > But in regards to someone else's comment earlier, makes the idea of
> > postgresql support for XML interesting.
> >
> > Adam Lang
> > Systems Engineer
> > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company